Traveling-flat carding-engine.



No. 629,052. Patented July I8, I899. R; TAYLOR, JR.

TRAVELING FLAT CARDING ENGilNE.

(Application filed Jan. 4, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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'TRAVELiNG-FLAT CARDlNG-ENGINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 629,052, dated July 18, 1899.

Application filed January 4, 1899. Serial No. 701,144:- (No model.)

bearing date July 5, 1898,) of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in traveling-flat carding-engines; and the object of my improvement is to enable any fiat to be disconnected from the traveling chains without disturbing or displacing the latter. In the ordinary way each flat is pivoted at each end upon one of the pins which pass through the bushes which connect togetherthe links of the chain; but according to my improvements I separately pivot or connect each flat to the links of the chains in such a Way that a flat can be readily disconnected from or attached to the chains without interfering with the pins which hinge the links together.

In the accompanying vsheet of drawings, Figure 1 is aside elevation, and Fig. 2 a plan, both partly sectional, of part of one of the chains and two of the flats of a traveling-flat carding-engine to which my improvements are applied.

In the drawings, 1 denotes the. links of the traveling chain, 2 the pins which pivot the links together, and 3 the traveling flats.

In the construction illustrated I employ a stud or bolt 4, screwed horizontally into each end of the flat 3, and with two flattened sides link 1.

adapted to pass through a slot 5 into a hole formed to receive it in the solid part of the When in this said hole, the stud 4 is turned a quarter-turn into the position shown on the right-hand side of Fig. lto prevent its withdrawal through the slot 5 leading to the hole; but by turning the stud 4 a quarter-turn into the position shown on the left-hand side of Fig. l the stud can be withdrawn from-the link 1 and the flat released from the chain.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. In a carding-engine,the traveling chains,- the flats and a locking connection between each flat and the chains, said connection beingindependent of the link-pivots and arranged to allow of the connecting or disconneoting of any flat from the chains without parting the chain, substantially as described.

2. In a carding-engine the combination with the traveling chains, of the horizontal studs 4 screwed into the ends of the flats 3, said studs being formed with two flattened sides ROBERT TAYLOR, J .R.

Witnesses:

H. B. HARLOW, S. W. GILLETT. 

